Bula Vinaka posted:

I'm old enough to remember when they were being sold before the George Foreman endorsement.

They used to be sold out of mail order catalogs in the late 80's and early 90's, before they started appearing on informercials with George Foreman. I believe this was due to the success infomercials started having in the early 1990's, such as "Amazing Discoveries", as well as Cathy Mitchell. She's known today mostly for the copper pans, but she was doing infomercials for stick blenders and sandwich toasters in the early 1990's.